40-49

50-59

60-79

80-99

100 and up

just a heads-up that we're coming to the end of the year, and that means that a new thread will be starting with effect from 0000 on 1 january 2018, where you can put books read* in the next calendar year. please don't be awkward and demand a different set of 365 days, the 2018 thread is intended for books read** between the very start of 2018 and the very end of 2018***.

anyway, as i say, just a heads-up this thread'll be the one to post your read books on for 2018, and i only mention this so you can start thinking how many books it is likely you'll read next year.

_____*read includes books read to you, heard as audiofiles, on tapes, cds, etc ad nauseam.** read in this case means completed.*** the very end of 2018 is deemed to be 2359 on 31 december 2018.

just a heads-up that we're coming to the end of the year, and that means that a new thread will be starting with effect from 0000 on 1 january 2018, where you can put books read* in the next calendar year. please don't be awkward and demand a different set of 365 days, the 2018 thread is intended for books read** between the very start of 2018 and the very end of 2018***.

anyway, as i say, just a heads-up this thread'll be the one to post your read books on for 2018, and i only mention this so you can start thinking how many books it is likely you'll read next year.

_____*read includes books read to you, heard as audiofiles, on tapes, cds, etc ad nauseam.** read in this case means completed.*** the very end of 2018 is deemed to be 2359 on 31 december 2018.

these rules are of course arbitrary. but there you go.

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How come your post reads, erroneously, 366 days but when I quote it it correctly reads 365 days? Are you the devil?

I don’t get the quantity thing, that would entail reading rubbish and I try not to read rubbish. I’ve got Adults in the Room staring at me and that ain’t gonna be finished quickly. But I’ll try and keep the thread, erm, posted.

How come your post reads, erroneously, 366 days but when I quote it it correctly reads 365 days? Are you the devil?

I don’t get the quantity thing, that would entail reading rubbish and I try not to read rubbish. I’ve got Adults in the Room staring at me and that ain’t gonna be finished quickly. But I’ll try and keep the thread, erm, posted.

I'm going to revise my next year's quota down to around 15, so I can read the huge tomes I've not got around to yet. Things like Capital Vol. 1 & 2, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Infinite Jest, without feeling the need to rush to meet my target.

A few years back when I last participated in this thread, I was doing more than a book a week easily, but the last couple of years have been a struggle since finding my spare time taken up by moving in with my partner. I've quit social media recently, so that coupled with the need to unwind while planning my wedding means I've gone for 25. That's roughly double what I did this year.

I've read shitloads this year, and smashed my 45 target by 20. I've been surprised, as I'm fairly busy (final year as a medical registrar and dad of 3/5/7 year olds).
I've just been a shit dad, doctor and husband

I initially voted 10-19, but am going to set a target of 25 - with a bottom of 20.

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.

Finished reading this a few minutes ago. Another great Zola novel chronicling alcoholism and poverty among the Parisian working class, with all the attendant physical and mental cruelty and deprivation; and the origin story of Etienne and Nana from Germinal and Nana respectively.

I initially voted 10-19, but am going to set a target of 25 - with a bottom of 20.

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.

Finished reading this a few minutes ago. Another great Zola novel chronicling alcoholism and poverty among the Parisian working class, with all the attendant physical and mental cruelty and deprivation; and the origin story of Etienne and Nana from Germinal and Nana respectively.